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Mar 04, 2010

SA’s Multibillion Rand Money Market Goes Electronic

South Africa’s multibillion Rand money market industry has officially commenced the electronic issuing, trading and settlement of these securities in place of the manual paper based system which has been in existence since inception of the Money Market. As the largest issuer of money market securities, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has ...

Oct 27, 2009

South Africa’s First Dematerialised Money Market Security is Issued and Settled Electronically

Leading institutions in the South African money market industry have successfully issued, traded and settled the first money market securities electronically. Following the implementation of Strate’s Money Market Securities System, which was developed jointly with the market, securities is being processed electronically by Standard Corporate ...

Sep 02, 2009

Link Up Press Release

Strate, South Africa CSD, joins Link Up Markets Strate Ltd, South Africa’s Central Securities Depository (CSDs) has become the latest and first non-European member of Link Up Markets, the joint venture created in 2008 by CSDs to improve efficiency and reduce costs of post-trade processing of cross-border securities transactions. With the ...

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Since its inception over ten years ago, Strate Ltd is proud to be the licensed Central Securities Depository (CSD) for the electronic settlement of financial instruments in South Africa.

Strate's core purpose is to mitigate risk, bring efficiencies to the South African financial markets and improve its profile as an investment destination. Strate is aligned to international best practices and continually strives to ensure operational excellence and provide enhancements for the good of the Southern African financial markets.

Strate handles the settlement of a number of securities including equities and bonds for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as well as a range of derivative products such as warrants, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), retail notes and tracker funds. It has now added the settlement of money market securities to its portfolio of services. It provides services to Issuers for their investors in terms of the Companies Act and Securities Services Act (SSA), 2004.